After committing serious acts of injustice towards their own citizens, governments are often expected to acknowledge and apologize for their crimes. Whilst in this period of time, governments usually authorize a truth and reconciliation commission to resolve past conflict between the perpetrators and the victims. In Canadian history, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was empowered by the Government of Canada, in order to heal past trauma of the nation, individuals, as well as groups that were the victims of the Indian residential school system. Many decades after the majority of the Indian residential schools were shut down, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was established in 2008, with their work being
